About Touya's AU
Feb. 23rd, 2013 02:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
inbloodThere are a few major changes from Pokemon canon to this AU. Traditional RPG classes, such as Swordsman and Healer, are given to the characters. The relationship between Pokemon and humans is different. Battle mechanics are very different, as well. Plotlines changed as a result.
First thing to be explained should be the relationship between humans and Pokemon. In a word, they're soulmates. Every human has at least one (up to six for Beastmasters, more than three for other classes is extremely rare) Pokemon they are bonded to. The human and their Pokemon share a spirit or soul; neither is complete without the other.
The RPG classes are "destined", so to speak - every person is born with one, though it usually only reveals itself subtly until the child is five years old. At that age, a person meets their destined Pokemon - born at the same time as them in the Elsewhere Pokemon occupy when not on the human plane - for the first time. The Pokemon teaches the class, such as an Audino teaching someone to be a Healer or a Vileplume teaching someone to be an Herbalist. People can have up to two classes. The Pokemon they were always bonded to teaches the "primary" class, which will always be the one the person is a bit better at simply because it's their "true nature". If the person bonds with a second Pokemon, that Pokemon can teach them a "secondary" class. After that point, no new classes may be learned, though any further Pokemon bonded to will teach the person to use a few basic skills from other classes, for example a Lancer/Guardian might form a bond with a Charmeleon and gain a few weak fire spells.
In combat, more often than not the human and Pokemon both fight, sharing the combat duties unless one is more suited to support than the other. All Pokemon exist either in the Elsewhere, waiting for their partnered human, or bonded to a human. Instead of wild Pokemon, the world is brimming with vicious monsters, which people fight for their own survival and sometimes livelihood. Sometimes they fight eachother, as well.
While Pokemon will generally live just as long as their bonded human, it is possible for the bond to be broken only by death. It's more common for a human to be killed in battle while their Pokemon lives on, and in very rare cases the Pokemon will die and leave the human behind. In either case, it is a literal loss of a part of one's soul that can never be recovered, and almost never ends well for those left behind. However, cases of one dying without the other are very rare to begin with.
Finally, Pokeballs don't exist. Pokemon either travel by their Person's side (like Pikachu does with Ash) or wait in the Elsewhere. The Elsewhere is a place that is not that only Pokemon visit - think the Dream World, it's kind of like that. A human can always feel their connection to their Pokemon even when their Pokemon is in the Elsewhere. If this connection gets blocked, both human and Pokemon will feel that something is very, very wrong. If the connection is blocked or the pair is kept separated from eachother physically at great distance for too long, both will become more and more single-minded about their missing partner. In extreme circumstances, they'll disregard all risks and consequences to do whatever is necessary to reunite and feel whole again.
First thing to be explained should be the relationship between humans and Pokemon. In a word, they're soulmates. Every human has at least one (up to six for Beastmasters, more than three for other classes is extremely rare) Pokemon they are bonded to. The human and their Pokemon share a spirit or soul; neither is complete without the other.
The RPG classes are "destined", so to speak - every person is born with one, though it usually only reveals itself subtly until the child is five years old. At that age, a person meets their destined Pokemon - born at the same time as them in the Elsewhere Pokemon occupy when not on the human plane - for the first time. The Pokemon teaches the class, such as an Audino teaching someone to be a Healer or a Vileplume teaching someone to be an Herbalist. People can have up to two classes. The Pokemon they were always bonded to teaches the "primary" class, which will always be the one the person is a bit better at simply because it's their "true nature". If the person bonds with a second Pokemon, that Pokemon can teach them a "secondary" class. After that point, no new classes may be learned, though any further Pokemon bonded to will teach the person to use a few basic skills from other classes, for example a Lancer/Guardian might form a bond with a Charmeleon and gain a few weak fire spells.
In combat, more often than not the human and Pokemon both fight, sharing the combat duties unless one is more suited to support than the other. All Pokemon exist either in the Elsewhere, waiting for their partnered human, or bonded to a human. Instead of wild Pokemon, the world is brimming with vicious monsters, which people fight for their own survival and sometimes livelihood. Sometimes they fight eachother, as well.
While Pokemon will generally live just as long as their bonded human, it is possible for the bond to be broken only by death. It's more common for a human to be killed in battle while their Pokemon lives on, and in very rare cases the Pokemon will die and leave the human behind. In either case, it is a literal loss of a part of one's soul that can never be recovered, and almost never ends well for those left behind. However, cases of one dying without the other are very rare to begin with.
Finally, Pokeballs don't exist. Pokemon either travel by their Person's side (like Pikachu does with Ash) or wait in the Elsewhere. The Elsewhere is a place that is not that only Pokemon visit - think the Dream World, it's kind of like that. A human can always feel their connection to their Pokemon even when their Pokemon is in the Elsewhere. If this connection gets blocked, both human and Pokemon will feel that something is very, very wrong. If the connection is blocked or the pair is kept separated from eachother physically at great distance for too long, both will become more and more single-minded about their missing partner. In extreme circumstances, they'll disregard all risks and consequences to do whatever is necessary to reunite and feel whole again.